How Vinnie Got The Zappa Gig - Vinnie Colaiuta
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I can listen to Zappa stories for hours. Vinnie is a true legend. God bless Dom Famularo. A fabulous ambassador for drums and the drumming community
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Sucks that Dom passed
Vinnie had such a synergy with Frank. Franks solos were just so elevated with him
Dude played with Frank Zappa who was notoriously difficult on choosing who was playing
His music...Respect for Vinnie Colaiuta.
State the fvcking obvious.
did ok with j beck as well
Vinnie Colaiuta's drumming is of another galaxy. This guy is a drum god. Every time I watch him, I want to throw down my sticks and say "I am done". But as musicians, we are constantly striving to improve and exceed our goals.
"Ike Willis was over there...and he said to me: 'Did he ask you to wait, too?'" 😀
Wow. No pressure. Jeez.
One hell of a player as is Dom. Still can't believe Dom has left us :(
Who is Dom?
@@chrislenahan4477 Dom Famularo is the guy interviewing Vinnie. The Session Panel was started by Dom and he conducted all the interviews. Great player, lovely guy and also known as the "global ambassador for drumming." So sad that he left us!
a cattle call audition. 3 lines of 150. can you imagine the talent that was in those lines.
Frank had seconds to listen and plucked out Ike Willis and Vinnie. wow.
Ike Willis sat across the aisle from me in Biology class at Washington Univesity
Okay, and? 🤓😎
THEN WHAT HAPPENED ?
@@tomstiel7576 Once upon a time, The End.
Wow love to hear more about this . He was so great and I have no idea about his early life and background
Yeah, Ike Willis is well known biologist.
This is the most inspiring thing I ever heard. Get good, get confident, don't give up, do what it takes. Thanks for the lesson Vinnie!
Best drummer Frank and Jeff Beck ever hired. Vinnie can play anything and his dynamics are off the charts.
Beck had Simon Phillips who ain't bad.
@@xxryder1 There's not a bad drummer that's played with either guy but Frank himself said Vinnie could play anything in time and few of his drummers could do what he did. Philips is great...Bozzio was great...Vinnie to me is just the best
@@gregmock6808 I get it bro, you're right.
Aynsley Dumbar
Substitute the word "worst" for "best" here and you've got something. Aynsley Dunbar was INFINITELY greater a drummer for both Frank AND Jeff Beck (look it up) than this soulless chops-meister could ever hope to be in his dreams. That's why DUNBAR was Frank's MOST recorded drummer, not this music school victim with infinite skills yet not a musical bone in his body.
Zappa loved Vinnie. He said he was his favorite drummer. That's high praise considering the list of top players! Bozzio,Thomson,Humphreys,Dumbar, Tripp, Mundi,Wackerman. All fantastic drummers.
Incredible lineup.
Don't forget wacky Jim Gordon
Also I didn't remember that Art Tripp played with Zappa. Love Captain Beefheart!
@@tmm4461
But Wackerman spent the longest
period of time with the Maestro - Mr. FZ. Longer than anybody else, eh!
@@-Finlander- His solo work is great too.
The pride of Brownsville, PA. He never forgot that either.
Goosebumps! And....the REST IS HISTORY!! What a Player!!
"Hey, Zap's looking for a rhythm section." Haha sounds like from a mob movie. Great stories these. Great guy too.
He tells stories a lot like Vai does!!😊
You should Google Vai's story about Vinnie, if you haven't seen it already. It's great.
Vinnie is otherworldly good!!
R.I.P. Dom
Dom was such a good interviewer. RIP
I love this story!! Not my first time...
I did not know about the 'Fowler family', all I knew was that Tom Fowler is an amazing base player. I love listening to his work.
Tom Fowler, Walt Fowler and Bruce Fowler all played with Frank on ROXY & Elsewhere.
Walt & Bruce played with Frank during the '88 tour. Too bad Tom wasn't available (or not asked) to play bass on that tour.
Scott Thunes, a very competent player to be sure, played in that band and they imploded over issues with him.
@@Royale_with_CheezeI heard people in the band didn’t get along with Scott, but I never knew why
Love hearing how such talented people get their break.
Great story teller!
And such a phenomenal drummer… he went on to play with Jeff Beck.
Kinda young, kinda WOW!!
Edit: More Vinnie, please 🙏
Vinnie Colaiuta Is The Real Deal. A Professional, Disciplined Musician.For Me He Is A True Inspiration For Living Purpose Filled Life. One Of The Drummers That Brought My Attention To Drummers. Straight Up One Of The G.O.A.T. 🥁🎵☮️🌎🌍🌏✊
Colaiiuta is a drum master
What an incredible time to be able to go there with barely anything in your pocket and the clothes on your back and eventually become the drummer of one of the great musical composers musicians and Geniuses of all time and his career just went off from there and now he's revered is one of the greatest drummers of all time I would certainly put him in my top five easily even Terry Bozzio would be in my top five along with Neil Peart Bill bruford and Carl Palmer
Wow. Edge of the seat retelling!
Without a doubt…. Vinnie is one of the greatest to do it.
Zappa surrounded himself with the very best artists.. He brought out the best in them. Beautiful, original music was the result. I'm forever grateful.
What a great interview and story. I love being a drummer...such a rich community of terrific people.
AmaZing story & video thank you Dom & Vinnie
Good to know that there are still a few pros out there
Absolute legend right here
A great story...presented by two GREAT artists in their own riight. RIP Dom and thanks so much for posting.
GOAT meets the GOAT
Excellent! Total history here...
Some might call it luck. I call it destiny: where preparation meets opportunity. And he's such a great human being as well. Great story.
Man, thanks, such an amazing story. Vinnie’s such a cool guy & one of greats‼️
What an incredible success story!
"I must have been up here a whole minute already! Wow!"
Lol. Those auditions must have been so intense.
Amazing story... Vinnie is the real deal.. percussionist extraordinaire...
Incredible story.
"Kinda young and kinda wow"
Great storytelling.
Incredible! Love it, thanks. It's like watching a movie
That was better than I expected.
That is an amazing story.
This so ranks up there with Steve Vai's story about his Zappa audition... "Frank was BRUTAL to me! Just ask Vinnie!"
Bravo!
Amazing!!!
🙏❤🌹 Frank & Dom 🌹❤🙏
Saw him with Zappa in 81. Steve Vai on guitar; Arthur Barrow on bass. One of Zappa's better bands.
I saw those guys in London and it is still the best gig I have ever seen.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy, as the saying goes.
Amazing story.
Great Story….wow….👏👏👏
Bloody hell, this is superb!
Che storia ragazzi...Porcaro disse di se stesso che rifiuto' diverse audizioni per Frank perche' "sicuramente lo avrebbe fatto a pezzi"(sic).Grandissimo Vinnie
Great story!
I love the Zappa tryout stories. Steve Vai's story was great as well.
"I hear Linda Ronstadt's looking for a guitar player"
Adrian Belew's story is good, too. Adrian couldn't read, but Frank still hired him: speaks volumes about Adrian, and Frank recognizing the talent.
Fascinating stuff!
This is so incredible 🥺
~~ some things you hear over & over about FZ - he would audition a LOT of people - he’d make his decisions on the rejects almost immediately - you didn’t have long to impress FZ - those who made it into the band were expected to work practically around the clock - as FZ did - on a gig day, you didn’t just do one sound check lasting an hour or 2 in the middle of the day - you were sound checking ALL DAY long - right up until the gig - and during that time FZ might be composing new music and directing you on how to play it - you had to be familiar with his entire catalogue as you never knew until gig time what he'd put on the setlist - and he was recording absolutely everything ..
How the great Vinny Colaiuta got a gig with the great Frank Zappa
Wow, hadn't realized that Frank "discovered" Vinny, basically gave him his 1st break.
Man this was so interesting, was sad to see it get cut off… Is the entire interview available on here anywhere?
The entire interview is available, I watched it about a year ago. Click on the Sessions Panel, I bet you can find it.
@@John-fc7wc i’ll give it a look, thanks!!
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Wow! I want to hear more 😅
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Omg, I remember as a drummer walking into a cattle call one time at B.B. Kings Blue Club in Orlando. 30+ drummers, one guitar player, I think one bassist and a keyboard player. Those three guys ended up being asked to stick around as the audition band for this ridiculous line of drummers and the audition went much like Vinnie's. 15 seconds and the producer said "Next" on most of them. A couple of guys actually got to play a full minute. I was one of only a couple who were asked to play more than one song. Unfortunately I still never got a callback. 😥 It was to put house bands on cruise ships but I think the project never got off the ground and now the clubs have closed.
That is the fate of a working musician who is not a working musician.
Colaiuta in Modern Drummer magazine back in the 90s. Made drummers think they needed to be musicians.
I miss Dom and his energy and enthusiasm
❤
"Whirlwind" pretty much defines Frank Zappa's life and music (one and the same). Truly the paramount composer of the late Twentieth Century.
Incredible story. Thanks Dom!
It seems like Frank Zappa was a proving ground for musicians!!! I'm not familiar with all of the musicians who played with Frank but the ones that I'm familiar with such as Vinnie, the late great George Duke, and Chad Wackerman went on to have stellar careers because they had to be impeccable!!!
Find the Steve Vai audition story.
@@AntiMyth I thought Steve played with Frank too but wasn't sure.
Find the Adrian Belew audition story. And the Ruth Underwood interview,
@@yournamehere6719 I'll check these out!
Amazing. I would love to see this movie.
Quite a story. Zappa sounds like a real task master. He drove around in a Rolls-Royce? He was successful early on?
Find the Steve Vai audition story.
Zappa was very shrewd on the business end, owned all his music and the master tapes. Vai, Belew and Thunes all talk about the full education they got from their time with Frank.
God bless George Duke and Ed Mann
I’ll miss Dom’s interviews.
We will too but will continue to honor his legacy & mission with more interviews, as he asked us to!
Dom. Please interview Prairie Prince. That would be great
Dom's dead...
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Where are they now? Did they all take the vow?
The thumbnail 😂
Well where is the rest of it!?
Joe's garage!!!
fascinating story. Can someone please fill in the blanks? Why was Terry's kit there?
I think Frank owned the kit, but Terry was moving on, Vinny was his replacement.
ALL HAIL FRANK ZAPPA 🙌
Tinseltown rebbelion it is...
He invented seal call fusion music.
tom fowler was a phenom on bass
Son of Orange County, behind Frank soloing. Best bass work.
4:28 best
Stories about zappa are more entertaining than most of his musicw
Where's the rest of the interview ?
Try the search field.
It’s in the description
And how did it end up that Vinnie worked with Jeff Beck?
If you thought Fletcher was brutal...
Seven days by Sting
Frank sounds like a real douche. But, I love his stuff.
why would Frank Zappa hold open try outs ?
To find the best talents. Clearly it worked
Colaiuda is so good I hate him.
Where did the Rolls Royce and "Spago" money come from?
Apostrophe and Overnight Sensation. Frank rented a bus and flew a banner on it while parading in front of Warner Bros. thanking them for getting one of his songs in the Top100 on Billboard
Yellow Snow. Big hit, got lots of radio play, in a chopped-up format. Was his biggest "hit", until Valley Girl.
Zappa demanded much discipline and prowess from his players, but not from himself as a guitarist. Talented but highly affected as opposed to Allan Holdsworth, who only asked for him to be creative in their own way. Funny how that works sometimes.
Because Zappa demanded from others the discipline Holdsworth demanded from himself. There's an interview with Wackerman where he says Holdsworth was so hard on himself never repeated a lick (and lucky him that got to play with both Zappa and Holdsworth). And I do think that's way more respectable than carrying a musical ensemble like the military.
Pretty sure Zappa even stated himself he wouldn’t pass tryouts for his own band
Much rather hear about the Sting gig, personally. Don’t care for Zappa at all. Never did.
Soulless chops-meisters like this guy (who I saw with Frank in New York in 1978) are part of why we're living through a musically inconsequential age.
Yes, we're in a musically inconsequential age, but the idea that Vinnie is part of that is absurd. One doesn't have the career he's had, working with the top and most-respected people in rock, pop, country, jazz being a "soulless chops-meister."
@@fretbuzz59Vinnie was one of the greatest drummers, his improv with Frank knows no bounds
Aint tht funny
I wonder how many drugs Zappa was on.
13, I think.
Exactly 2: coffee & cigarettes.